The problem I am having is that somehow 'success' never happens. (I deployed the application and checked). It also seems that in the Action class (loginAction) , something is not working as it should. Could you tell me what I am doing wrong?

Yes I know it is not reached.... I debugged the code but I don't know why it is never reached..... Bottom line: I want to know whether I am writing the LoginAction class in the correct way to handle Hibernate. There is something not functioning inside the try-catch block..
Could it be something in the HibernatePlugIn.java file perhaps? Here it is for reference. Thank again.